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Research focused on sleep and sleep disparities can advance the field by addressing important methodological challenges. For instance, studies should include more prospective designs to establish temporal ordering of sleep and health outcomes. Objective sleep measures, as obtained by wrist actigraphy and polysomnography (the gold standard), are needed to minimize hard‐to‐report sleep‐related behavior misclassification (e.g., sleep latency, snoring among individuals without a bed partner). Researchers should keep in mind that addressing sleep disparities at a population level to prevent subsequent poor health outcomes will require more racial/ethnic minority inclusion in studies, as well as scientific evidence (likely from multilevel research including individual, interpersonal/household, and neighborhood/community factors), that helps coordinate efforts that connect policies, systems, and environmental interventions.